A population of Conus pennaceus Born was examined at
Hauula, Oahu, and was found to include darkly pigmented specimens referable
to C. elisae Kiener. The larvae from an egg mass laid by one of the
darkly pigmented cones ...

Terebrid gastropods of the genus Hastula are found in great
abundance on fine-sand beaches throughout the tropics. Hastula inconstans, a
species common to surf beaches in the Hawaiian Islands, is the first hastula ...

In Bodega Harbor, California, the nemertean Paranemertes
peregrina spawns in June or July. Adults in the study area were small in
comparison to worms found on two Washington mud flats. Population density
of active worms ...

A new stenopodidean shrimp, Spongicoloides novaezelandiae sp.
nov., taken in a depth of about 1000 m in the Chatham Rise is described and
illustrated. It is somewhat similar to the east Atlantic Spongicoloides ...

The penaeid prawns Penaeus semisulcatus and Metapenaeus
ensis were surveyed in Fanga'uta Lagoon, Tongatapu, between July 1975 and
August 1976. Catch rates indicate maximum abundance of P. semisulcatus
from September to ...

In Cyrtandra grandiflora flowering is correlated with a relatively
dry period or with the associated increased sunlight that occurs about 3
months prior to flowering. Fruits are mature about 5 months after flowering.
Cyrtandra ...

The small Indian mongoose, Herpestes auropunctalus
(Carnivora: Viverridae), and the roof rat, Rattus rattus, and the Polynesian
rat, Rattus exulans (both Rodentia: Muridae), are abundant in Waipio Valley,
island of ...

Two species of the Hawaiian genus Dubautia (subgenus Railliardiaster)
are described as new. Dubautia herbstobatae (n = 13) is from
Ohikilolo Ridge in the Waianae Mountains of Oahu; D. waianapanapaensis
(n = 13) is from ...